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Rating: 3/10 (11 June 2014)

This movie is wrong on so many levels, I don't know where to begin. So I'm starting with the only positive note I have found. The battle scenes are so awesome. The giant robots and monster fist fighting, that's something I'd really love to see again.
Now for the easier part of my writing, the story is so familiar. This is the most common military vs alien story. "Our hero loses his older brother in the first part and drifts away from his job. Then when the world faces an alien invasion threat, a general/commander brings that hero back our last resort. But since he left, a new poster boy has risen, who is now jealous of the old hero's return. Men upstairs give some wrong orders. The commander decides to disobey. He gives a cheap motivational speech.
"Then comes the final battle. Non-American comrades die easily as some overrated soldiers. Disaster porn. Our hero comes to save the day. More disaster porn. Disaster porn, disaster porn.
"The egotistic poster boy sacrifices himself to give our hero one last chance to save the world. But our hero wastes that extra time for his love. That stupid decision makes everyone in front of monitors think the hero died. But the hero comes back from death. And of course he saves the world."
Now remember how many times have we seen this crap before. You had a budget of 190 millions dollar. Get a better story. Then get better actors. The performances of the actors were very awkward for me, I don't wanna elaborate.
You've seen this movie before, trust me. Don't waste 2 hours.